Your Skipping The Saturday Electric News Roundup

Well, the heat wave is past, the dead are being counted, and so it is now time for the city's papers to fill up their first-Saturday-in-August issues with newsprint on the aftermath and what could've gone worse. So let's just go with that old-blog-standard, the roundup:

- Many (we'd guess most) West Queens residents who suffered through the eight-day blackout last month are not in the least amused by ConEd's offer of a $3 credit for their troubles.
- The Times explores that "My friend's dad works at Con Ed..." e-mail that was working its way around on Thursday.
- Bloomie is still not jumping to condemn ConEd for its responses to this summer.
- Small patches of the city have been blacking in and out for the past week, including one three-block patch of the Bronx.
- Well, that explains something. "ConEd has reduced maintenance spending from a peak of $462 million in 1993 to a low of $250 million in 2004." As Assemblyman Richard Brodsky put it to the Post: "It appears that they did to the electric system what the city of New York did to its train system in the 1970s." Snap!
- Oh, and without some massive upgrades to the system, you better get used to power outages.

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